- Collection:
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
- Title:
- Agnes Street and Shirley Holmes (Allen) seated on table holding war bond campaign materials, with large bell, poster advertising "The First Annual Double V Water Beauty Pageant..." and boy standing in doorway in background
- Creator:
- Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1942/1950
- Subject:
- Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Signs and signboards
Beauty contests--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Savings bonds
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American
Civil rights movements--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- One woman holds a poster reading "We Can, We Will, We Must...buy U.S. War Savings Bonds and Stamps Now," another poster on the back wall reads "We Keep the Morale High, The First Annual Double V Water Beauty Pageant, Pittsburgh, PA...Friday, Aug. 28, Aquacade, Beauty Parade, Racing - Dancing."
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Local Identifier:
- black and white: Agfa safety film
Accession number: 2001.35.9782
Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.9782
Multimedia identifier: 18271.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://www.cmoa.org/CollectionDetail.aspx?item=18271
- Rights Holder:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Contributing Institution:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Rights:
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